When we went to Hillier Gardens last week, there was mostly thick cloud cover, but we still saw 13 species of butterflies. Would we see more species now that the weather was a lot warmer? Or would the trend of the heatwave of seeing relatively few butterflies, which became obvious when we were in Wisley Gardens and on Old Winchester Hill, continue?
Turned out to be the latter: we saw ten species, with quite low numbers for all species. Few large nymphalids still, and I really like how the sun shone through the wings of this red admiral.
In terms of odo's, a few of some of the usual species, including golden-ringed dragons.
Here the tables of what may well have been the final day of butterdamseldragonflying in Hillier Gardens this year (one = 1; few = 2-4; several = 5-9; many = 10+):
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